Günter Quadbeck

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Günter Quadbeck (born August 27, 1915 in Dortmund ; † June 25, 2004 in Heidelberg ) was a German physician , chemist , neurochemist and dean of the Medical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

Quadbeck was born as the son of Otto Wilhelm Ludwig Quadbeck and Valentine Elisabeth. Bedbur was born in Dortmund and first attended the German school in The Hague, because his father organized food exports to Germany from there. Due to the father's health problems, the family returned to Germany and Quadbeck attended the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Bad Homburg , where he graduated from high school in February 1934. Quadbeck joined the NSDAP as early as 1933 , but he did not hold any posts in the party and was expelled from the party again in 1939 due to a critical letter to his brother. Due to an amnesty there were no legal consequences for Quadbeck.

From 1934 to 1942 Günter Quadbeck studied chemistry at the University of Munich , the diploma exam took place on March 25, 1942. The studies were interrupted by military service (1935-1937) and military service in 1940, when Quadbeck acquired the parachute gun badge. Between 1942 and 1959 Günter Quadbeck was a research assistant to Nobel Prize winner Richard Kuhn at the Chemical Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm and Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. On March 25, 1945, a few days before the liberation of Heidelberg by American troops, Günter Quadbeck was given a secret dissertation on the effects of nerve gases at the Nat.-Math. Faculty of Heidelberg University doctorates. The dissertation was given the comparatively harmless title “ Investigation on Esters ”. The two copies of the dissertation are lost. His work in the border areas between biochemistry and medicine led to the second degree in medicine, which Quadbeck completed between 1955 and 1960. In 1959, he completed his habilitation in biochemistry at the Medical Faculty in Heidelberg with a text on "Substance exchange between blood and central nervous tissue" . In the same year the re-qualification for neurochemistry at the Medical Faculty of Saarland took place. From 1959 to 1965 Quadbeck was initially a lecturer, later an adjunct professor at the University of Saarland and at the same time head of the neurochemical laboratory there. In 1965 he was offered the chair of pathological chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. Quadbeck also became director of the Institute for Pathochemistry and General Neurochemistry at the Pathological Institute of Heidelberg University. Between 1970 and 1974 Günter Quadbeck was Dean of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg, and from 1974 to 1979 Vice-Rector of the University of Heidelberg. During this time he was also concerned with questions about the implementation of the radical decree. In 1974 Quadbeck also received the degree of Dr. med. from the Medical Faculty Heidelberg. In 1980 Quadbeck retired at his own request.

In the 1970s Günter Quadbeck was chairman of the board of trustees of the sister school of Heidelberg University with its headmistress Antje Grauhan and successor Erika von Amann.

The core of his life's work is the international technical term "The blood-brain barrier" .

Honors

  • Max Bürger Prize of the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics (1968)
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1981)
  • Honorary member of the Brain League eV (1993)
  • Siegfried Hoyer: The organic psychosyndrome, dedicated to Günter Quadbeck on the occasion of his 65th birthday , Promonta Hamburg 1980.

Publications

  • with Heinz Weicker and Harald Will: Die Sedormidthrombocytose: an inverse reaction in the milky-free rat , in: Klinische Wochenschrift 32 , 7–8, 1954, pp. 182–183.
  • with H. Helmchen: readiness for cramps and blood-brain-barrier permeability , in: German Journal for Nerve Medicine 177 , 1958, pp. 295-308.
  • with Walter Schmitt: On the mechanism of action of neuroplegic substances , in: Naunyn - Schmiedeberg 's Archive for Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology 237 , 1959, 1.
  • Influence of psychotropic drugs on the blood-brain-barries , in: Neuro-Psychopharmacology 3 , 1964, pp. 436-439.
  • Physiology and pathology of the blood-brain barrier , in: Hippokrates 38 , 1967, pp. 45-53.
  • with Wilhelm Doerr : Allgemeine Pathologie , 2nd edition Springer Heidelberg 1973.

literature

  • Gotthard Schettler (Ed.): The Heidelberg University Clinic and its institutes, commemoration of the emeritus institute and clinic directors who played a major role in the work of the clinic , e.g. B. Günter Quadbeck, Springer Heidelberg et al. 1986, Foreword XV.
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon (1933-1986) , Springer Heidelberg a. a. 2009, p. 477.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmaltz, Florian: Warfare agent research in National Socialism. On the cooperation between Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the military and industry , vol. 11 of the “ History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism ” (Eds. Reinhard Rürup and Wolfgang Schieder), Wallstein-Verlag Göttingen 2005, pp. 494 + 495.
  2. ^ Hans Berlet and Siegfried Hoyer: Günter Quadbeck 65 years old , in: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Heidelberger edition, August 27, 1980.
  3. ^ Website Heidelberg University Hospital: History Institute Pathology , accessed on March 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ so z. B. Correspondence with the Heidelberg educational scientist Hermann Röhrs , in which the question of granting teaching assignments was controversially discussed in view of the radical decree, UAH Rep. 211/139.
  5. ^ Postponed correspondence from the University of Heidelberg's Nurse School, Heidelberg University Archives, Acc 43/08.

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personal data
SURNAME Quadbeck, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, neurochemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2004
Place of death Heidelberg